Samantha Millan
Andrew Birkin, "Charlotte Gainsbourg with Cigarette"
1977
I
selected this image because her face immediately caught my attention –
worry. She is worried that she is getting caught or she is worried of
what will happen to her if she doesn't do what she is told. I began to
question this image because of the audacious object she holds in her
hand – a cigarette. In our generation this image can be interpreted
several different ways. This can be a foreshadowing picture of 2015
where children are growing up faster than they are supposed to. Or by
her haunting look, it can show how easily children are peer pressured
into doing things they don't want to do, but they wouldn't be
considered "cool" if they don't give in. Or holding the cigarette can
be a metaphor for death because second hand smoking causes more deaths
than actual smoking. Either way, children are being affected in
negative ways as years go by. And it needs to change.
